Shop Talk: Bush’s Architect, Demolition at Princeton, MIT’s Museum Do-Over

Bombast: In The New Republic, Sarah Williams Goldhagen says President Bush did well in choosing Robert A.M. Stern Architects to design his presidential library, which will be built at Southern Methodist University. At least he did better than his father, who picked Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum for his presidential library, at Texas A&M University, which Ms. Goldhagen dismisses as “a sorry affair in College Station, Tex., little more than an incoherent piece of bombast.” Newsweek weighs in, too.

Butler: Now that Princeton University has opened a brand-new Collegiate Gothic residential complex, Whitman College, the university has demolished much of Butler College, designed in the 1960s by Hugh Stubbins (The Chronicle, February 23).

Restart: The MIT Museum is getting a $3-million renovation, according to The Boston Globe. The museum’s director plans to focus on cutting-edge projects rather than on science-and-engineering history.